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R&B singer Teyana Taylor and her fiance, the NBA’s Iman Shumpert, became parents to a bouncing baby girl Wednesday morning.  But Taylor didn’t have an ordinary delivery. In an Instagram post, she describes how she went into labor in her bathroom at home, and how she didn’t even know she was in labor until she…

The trailer for the Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart biopic that will air on Lifetime next month is out, and it looks like the film will stay true to the singer’s story. The trailer shows glimpses of the rocky journey that the sultry-voiced icon has been on while in the music industry. We see Lex…

It’s John Boyega’s moment. He’s a Nigerian Brit and a relative newcomer to the Hollywood movie industry, so it’s huge that he was cast in a lead role in The Force Awakens, the newest movie in the beloved Star Wars franchise.   But while Boyega has been enjoying his moment in the spotlight, he’s also…

Drug-company entrepreneur Martin Shkreli, 32, made a lot of enemies after he purchased Daraprim, an important HIV med, and jacked the price of the pill from $13.50 to $750. Why? Because he could. Then Shkreli made even more enemies after he purchased Wu-Tang Clan’s top-secret Once Upon a Time in Shaolin album for $2 million.…

Drake is trying his hand at the tech industry and has become a major investor in an app called Omni. According to TMZ, Drake hit it off with the app’s founder, Thomas McLeod, because of their mutual love of sneakers. McLeod gave Drake details about his app, and the Toronto rapper was in. The app,…

Chadwick Boseman has portrayed some of the greatest historical black figures, from Jackie Robinson to James Brown, and now he’s set to portray Thurgood Marshall in a new Reginald Hudlin film. Hudlin’s Marshall, described as a courtroom thriller, focuses on a case early in the career of the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court.…

Domestic violence doesn’t discriminate—meaning that it doesn’t just plague women who are seemingly insecure, from working-class backgrounds or don’t feel great about themselves physically. All kinds of women can find themselves subjected to abusive partners.  That’s why it’s super important that Christina Milian, a beautiful woman by most standards, revealed during an episode of her…

Regina King was one-third of the #BlackGirlsRock trifecta that captured our hearts the night of the 2015 Primetime Emmy Awards when she won. The other two winners were Viola Davis and Uzo Aduba. A part of King’s appeal was that her Emmy win was a long time coming. She’s been a mainstay on film and…

Television musicals are starting to be the thing, now that The Wiz Live! did so well. And I’m not talking about any ol’ musical, but productions reimagined with African-American images.  According to Shadow and Act, Fox is teaming up with Tyler Perry to bring Jesus Christ’s last days on Earth to television in the form…

During Tuesday night’s CNN GOP debate, in between the simultaneous tweets about the absurdity and ridiculousness of what was being said, there was one hashtag that stood out and gained traction on social media. #WhitesAgainstTrump, created by Heather Bentley last week, immediately trended after comedian W. Kamau Bell posted a tweet and article using the…